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Eudesmke. It seems to me that all Eadosinise flower in the opposite- 

 leaved stage. 



E.fasciculosaF.vM. (S.) See Part XIV, p. 1 40. 



E. ferruginea Schauer (S). 



E. Foelscheana F.v.M., flowering at 18 indies. (S.) 



E. gamophylla F.v.M. (S.) 



E. gigantea Hook. f. 



I have repeatedly seen this species flowering profusely when about 6 feet high, sometimes when 

 not more than 3 feet, and on several occasions when it had reached a height growth of between 2 and 3 feet. 

 As this species rarely suckers, it appeared to me that the early and profuse seeding powers were a com- 

 pensating characteristic of the species. (W. A. W. de Beuz2ville, Forest Assessor, Forestry Commission, 

 Sydney.) 



In another letter Mr. de Beuzeville says : " Regarding your inquiry as to the state of the fol.age 

 of this species when in the early flowering stage of 2 or 3 feet, I may say that you are quite right in your 

 impression that it flowers in a juvenile-leaf stage. I have often seen the flowers on these flowering saplings 

 fully 4 inches broad and about 5 inches long." This, therefore, is to be added to the list of tree species 

 which also flower in a shrubby state, and also to the list of those that flower in a juvenile-leaved stage. 

 (Maiden, in Journ. Boy. Soc. N.S.W., LI, 449, 1017.) 



E. globulus Lab ill. Mueller (Eucalyptographia) says, " On the storm-beaten 

 rocks of Wilson's Promontory I have seen E. globulus profusely in flower and fruit, 

 though dwarfed by exposure to the size of a mere shrub, when almost within the reach 

 of oceanic spray." 



Mr. A. D. Hardy sent me a twig of reversionary foliage from an introduced 

 street-tree at Stawell, Victoria. The tree is of normal appearance, and bears buds, 

 flowers and fruits plentifully. Near -a fork were reversionary shoots, all fruit or flower 

 bearing. 



E. gracilis F.v.M. See fig. 1. Plate 12, Part III, of this work. 



E. Houseana (W.V.F.) Maiden. We may have inflorescence both with mature 

 and juvenile leaves in this species. See Plate 201, Part L of this work. 



E. Kybeanensis Maiden and Cambage. Flowers in juvenile stage. See legend 

 at p. 185, Part XLVI of the present work. 



E. leucoxylon F.v.M. Mueller (Eucalyptographia) has seen, the species 

 flowering in a shrubby state, "' even when the leaves were still opposite." Flowered 

 and fruited freely at 4-6 feet on very poor shingly ground at Bacchus Marsh. Victoria, 

 see Part XII, p. 90. 



A red flowering form from Murray Bridge, S.A., collected by himself, had seed 

 sown by Dr. J. B. Cleland at Neutral Bay. Port Jackson. 14th November, 1915. It 

 flowered at a height of 11 feet 6 inches from 26th October, 1918, to 3rd December, 

 i.e., at three years old. The flowering twigs, as seen by me, were not, however, in the 

 juvenile-leaf stage. 



E. macrocarpa Hook. A dwarf Western Australian species. (S.) 



